I think Big Brown, or any horse for that matter, could potentionally have run just as bad as Harlem Rocker did if he trained exclusively on dirt then raced on poly for the first time. This is not an avenue for success. If they really wanted to win the Queens Plate in my view they should have stabled him at Woodbine and had him working over the track for a good length of time prior to the trial. If I'm not mistaken he was working at Saratoga or Belmont.
Now they are forced to go back to dirt but I think he will need some time coming out of that race. It was a set back imo.
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